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Editorial: New Year's wishes for the 2020s

The 2020s began Wednesday, arriving at a time of increasingly bitter political rancor - a disturbing state of affairs that we hope will give way soon to the better angels of our nature. But that's hardly our only aspiration after the tumultuous 2010s, which began with the country still reeling from the Great Recession and ended with three years of spectacularly divisive leadership from President Trump. In no particular order, here's our wish list for how things might be improved during the decade ahead, if we resolve to change them:

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